Our proposals

What’s important about the Boston Alternative Energy Facility?

The facility will process one million tonnes of refuse derived fuel (RDF – which is derived from non-recyclable household waste), generating enough power for more than 185,000 homes (equivalent to over 60% of the households in Lincolnshire)
It will provide investment for the region’s economy; we expect it to create up to 300 jobs during the construction phase and around 80 jobs when operational
The UK has a target of generating at least 15% of energy from renewable sources, including energy from waste**, by 2020. The facility will contribute to this target when built
It will mean that one million tonnes of RDF could be processed here out of the three million tonnes the UK currently sends abroad – so the UK benefits from generating energy rather than continental Europe
Recovering energy from non-recyclable material is far better than it being sent to landfill

** The Government defines technologies such as gasification as ‘renewables’ in policy EN-3